On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:53 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:58 pm, Lorne wrote: > > Ahhh crap, that complicates things. I thought I had read where they were > > all the same. I guess just some components are the same. I'm fairly > > certain it is hardware based, but perhaps with some tweaking of cmos or > > ?? you can get it more stable. How about slowing it down using the safe > > cmos settings and see if that makes a difference? Or how about opening up > > the case and putting a fan across it to see if it is a flakey piece of > > ram or something? How hot is the cpu getting? > > Well, they are a lot alike. :-) > > I've looked at CMOS stuff, and aside from differences in BIOS's, I tend to > set them to be the same on all 3 machines. > > I can underclock it, I suppose - I'm not using the optimized settings now, > but the default/safe ones. > > 50 degrees C... that should be okay, right? > ooooh... that sounds pretty darned hot. I forget what cpu speed you are running. I'm running a 2.5ghz and it is cooler than that I'm almost positive. I don't think intel gets flakey at that temp though. You might make sure you have some special goo to transfer the heat between the heat sink and chip. ??
> I guess I'm going to have to grab memtest and run it to see if shows > anything. Ram modules are only about 2 months old.... > Well best of luck to you man. > Thanks for your help!
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